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  Title

  A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse First edition.

  Author

  Levitt, Theresa.  

  Publisher:

  W.W. Norton & Company,

  Pub date:

  [2013]

  Pages:

  281 pages :

  ISBN:

  9780393068795

  • 9780393068795
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    Central (Casselberry)	Copies	Material	Location
    623.8942 LEV	1	Book	Nonfiction Shelving

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  A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse First edition.
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  A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse First edition.
  Levitt, Theresa.
  

  Personal Author:

  Levitt, Theresa.

  Title:

  A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse / Theresa Levitt.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Physical description:

  281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

  Contents:

  Dark and deadly shores -- Dreams of glory -- The flash of brilliance -- The dream of total refraction -- Race to perfection -- The American exception -- Everything recklessly broken -- The golden age.

  Summary:

  Describes the life of the man who invented a new lighthouse lens, capable of shining brighter, farther, and more efficiently than existing light sources, and his fight against the scientific elite, his poor health, and the limits of his era's technology.

  Held by:

  CENTRAL

  Personal subject:

  Fresnel, Augustin Jean, 1788-1827.

  Subject term:

  Lighthouses--History.

  Subject term:

  Fresnel lenses--History.

  Subject term:

  Physicists--France--Biography.